the adventures

The posts that poise began with - the chronicling of my adventures - reverse-chronologically.

Koy Yao Noi Island - Phuket - Thailand (The Whisky Diaries)

• Poise on hiatus
• The Whisky Diaries - day 1
• The Whisky Diaries - day 2
• The Whisky Diaries - day 3
• The Whisky Diaries - day 4
• The Whisky Diaries - day 5
• The Whisky Diaries - day 6
• The Whisky Diaries - day 7
• The Whisky Diaries - day 8
• The Whisky Diaries - day 9
• The Whisky Diaries - day 10
• The Whisky Diaries - day 11
• The Whisky Diaries - day 12
• The Whisky Diaries - day 13
• The Whisky Diaries - day 14 (final entry)

Xinjiang  - China

• Xinjiang is the new Tibet - an introduction
• Coming home from Xinjiang
• Kashgar city report
• Kashgar - Abakh Hoja mausoleum
• Kashgar - Karakoram highway and Karakul lake
• Kashgar - the tea house
• Portraits from the province
• Kashgar - the Sunday bazaar #1 / personal reflections
• Kashgar - the Sunday bazaar #2 with photos
• Architecture - specifically in the Xinjiang region
• Kashgar - the Sunday bazaar #3
• Kashgar's bread!
• Xinjiang food
• Kashgar - the Taklamakan desert and camel trek - part 1
• Kashgar - the Taklamakan desert and camel trek - part 2
• Kashgar - the Taklamakan desert and camel trek - part 3
• Kashgar - the Taklamakan desert and camel trek - part 4
• Kashgar and Xinjiang - the epilogue

Jinan - China

• Arriving and moving into 'Hermit Mode' for semester 2
• A little introduction to Jinan
• RT-Mart / Darunfa / Crazy shopping times
• Another badass trip - plans for the Xinjiang journey?
• What I've been reading
• Hitting the town
• #examscangodieinahole
• The gift of .gif
• Autumn on Shandong University campus
• On diaries and writing... some reflection
• Getting my laptop fixed and Mac vs. PC
• Mac vs. PC + T.E.D.
• Where have I been?
• Wuthering Heights
• What I've been reading #2
• The kids are alright, right? - on children in travels
• Jinan in Ruins
• 'Letters to a Young Contrarian'
• Melancholy autumn dawn
• on Hunter S. Thompson - 1/3
• The first of the 30 days of December
• on Hunter S. Thompson - 2/3
• Solving that December dilemma
• Chinese Vogue
• My roommate
• Don't like your job?
• To do list
• To do #1 done
• To do #2 done
• The end of the Facebook era.
• What I learnt from seven seasons of Buffy 1/2
• What I learnt from seven seasons of Buffy 2/2
• Various awesome things and spaghetti and Albert Kahn
• on Tintin
• on Hunter S. Thompson - 2.5/3
• Harry Potter in hanyu
• on Christopher Hitchens
• Some classic Chinglish
• My 'testimonials' and advice on exchanges
• My (quick) 'best of' 2011
• My Christmas present to me
• "You can't connect the dots looking forwards."
• on new years eve
• on Sleeping Beauty (the 2011 movie)
• on George Orwell - 'Books v. Cigarettes'
• Packing up to leave from Jinan

Beijing - China

• The great wall - Jinshanling
• A taste of what's to come
• Changbaishan
• Hilarious signs in Engrish
• The Summer Palace
• Some delicious times coming...
• Wondrous cooking night #1
• Wondrous cooking night #2
• The Forbidden City
• Maliandao tea street
• A food market tour

North Korea

• Democratic People's Republic of Korea - part 1
• Democratic People's Republic of Korea - part 2 (Arirang)
• Democratic People's Republic of Korea - part 3 (DMZ)
• Democratic People's Republic of Korea - part 4
• Democratic People's Republic of Korea - interlude
• Democratic People's Republic of Korea - part 5
• Democratic People's Republic of Korea - part 6 (conclusion)

Sichuan - China

• The plan to go and how to get there...
• A quick note on my return from Sichuan
• Portraits of people who look very interesting
• Chengdu city report
• Leshan and their giant Buddha
• I got pick-pocketed. Damn.
• Leshan city report
• HOLY SHIT THINGS ARE ROUGH AND DANGEROUS - going to parts of China that the government doesn't want you to go to
• Why the government didn't want us in those places
• More portraits of more incredible people
• Jiuzhaigou nature reserve
• Horse trek from hell - part 1
• Horse trek from hell - part 2
• Horse trek from hell - part 3
• Horse trek from hell - the photos
• Horse trek from hell - part 4
• Horse trek from hell - part 5
• The gift of .gif - kids and oldies
• The gift of .gif - turtles?
• The gift of .gif - a whole lotta chefs

Xian - China

• Shaanxi province and an INTENSE train to Xian
• Hua Shan (flower mountain) village
• Hua Shan
• Portraits of people you'll never meet
• Pollution problems
• The Muslim Quarter of Xi'an
• The city walls
• The gift of .gif - burning rubbish and a cleaner
• The gift of .gif - Hua Shan floating mist
• The gift of .gif - spooky streets

Shanghai - China

• Hanging out - my first day around and The French Concession
• Misc. photos
• 'The Complex Men' - my band
• This blog must adapt...
• Shanghai taxis anecdote - crazy times!
• Welcome to college life
• Zijin Shan - travelling to Nanjing and mountains
• Hilarious personals advertised by expats
• Fairy floss
• Animal Farm in relation to China
• Great street food!
• Collecting spoons
• THE BEST DAY EVER. EVER.
• An email from the artist whose work I just bought
• Chongming Island and the local student pub
• The new 'Welcome to' series
• Welcome to Fudan campus
• Pale skin and postcards
• The view from my only window
• Underground shopping
• Welcome to my tutoring family
• Welcome to my location
• Just some more interesting people
• Welcome to street vendors
• Life in a hurricane - the shit things about living in China
• Welcome to The Bund
• Welcome to the dormitory cat family
• Portraits of people
• Welcome to my goodies cupboard
• Development - photos and me and China
• Film I have developed - roll 1
• Film I have developed - roll 2
• Film I have developed - roll 3
• Film I have developed - roll 4
• Film I have developed - roll 5
• Film I have developed - roll 6
• Film I have developed - roll 7
• Film I have developed - roll 8
• Film I have developed - roll 9
• General stuff about China being so Chinese
• Welcome to milk
• Vegemite
• Welcome to the Fudan laundry lady
• Welcome to my favourite local restaurant
• Questioning my vegetarianism - 'Sharks Fin and Sichuan Pepper' by Fuscia Dunlop
• A lovely day in Shanghai full of reflection
• Ludicrous advertising...
• Welcome to my basketball team
• Mission postcards: complete!
• Rousong epiphanies (vegetarianism challenged) - part 1
• Rousong epiphanies (vegetarianism challenged) - part 2
• Rousong epiphanies (vegetarianism challenged) - epilogue
• My ultra-conservative, racist, homophobic dictionary
• 'Gods and perves' - a super crazy evening
• General reflections on Shanghai and Fudan University
• Spoons!
• Propaganda poster museum
• No traveller in China is an island
• Baozi banquet - a guide to Chinese dumplings
• Visuality - Shanghai in photos
• "Agony and Ivory" a story of fairness and vanity - China and Africa
• Making Hitchcock proud - a scary place

Hong Kong

• Stanley town
• Nam Koo Terrace (haunted house)
• Mong Kok flower markets & Yuen Po St bird markets
• Classified - cheese restaurant
• Crazy Asian fashions...
• Embarrassing expats and David Attenborough
• East meets west - the difference between everything
• Thoughts on Eastern art philosophies
• Frozen yoghurt is the best thing ever
• Cities on Sunday nights
• Engrish and ridiculous signs
• The gift of .gif on Rabbit Island
• The gift of .gif on shady alleyway dealings
• The gift of .gif on gutting fish
• Sha Tin 10'000 Buddhas monastery & a wet market
• Lamma Island
• The Peak
• Hong Kong Museum of History (silly things)
• Meat market - life and irony
• Hong Kong in pictures
• Advice
• The ladies' market
• Rant against traditional Chinese medicine
• Fresh new things - a really random post...
• My iPod on shuffle and into the heart of Hong Kong
• First arriving in Hong Kong
• Great new magazines and sites for you
  
  
  

  
  

  

  
  
  
  
  Siem Reap - Cambodia
  • Angkor Wat
  • The gift of .gif - water village boy
  • Kompong Pluk - floating village
  • Making pottery
  • The Butterfly Garden Restaurant and crazy dresses
  • The gift of .gif - crazy temple times
  • Ta Prohm
  • Horse riding at Happy Valley Ranch
  • The gift of .gif - more crazy temple times
  • Seeing eye massages...
  • First arriving in Cambodia
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
  Phnom Penh - Cambodia 
  • The quilt I had made for me - part 1 (Tiny Kampot Pillows)
  • The quilt I had made for me - part 2
  • Portraits drawn of/for us
  • Rabbit Island
  • Kampot - part 2
  • Kampot - part 1
  • The French-Colonial architecture
  • Tuol Sleng - Genocide site/museum
  • Sending postcards home
  
  
  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  Singapore
  • Singapore Zoo - strange statues
  • Singapore Zoo
  • Jurong Bird Park - my foray into falconry
  • Jurong Bird Park
  • Sri Mariamman Temple
  • Jellyfish are the coolest things ever
  • Arriving in Singapore